Hist. 131 -Give Me Liberty!: Chapters 1 - 4

"Republicanism" in the eighteenth-century English political world emphasized the importance of ____________ as the essence of liberty.

Active participation in public life by property-owning citizens.

Bacon's Rebellion was a response to:

Political corruption and worsening economic conditions in Virginia.

Europeans - particularly the English, French, and Dutch - generally believed they had a right to claim North American Indian land as their own based on:

Their view that the Indians did not use the land properly.

What motivated the Portuguese to begin exploration to find a water route to India, China, and the East Indies?

To eliminate the Muslim "middlemen" in the luxury goods trade.

In contrast to life in the Chesapeake Bay region, life in New England colonies:

Was more family oriented.

The first 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from England returned home:

Were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society.

Under the three distinct slave dynamics (or systems) that developed in the American colonies during the 18th century, slaves in the northern colonies:

Were relatively few in number and dispersed among the white population in small holdings.

According to the economic theory known as mercantilism:

the government should regulate economic activity among its colonies so as to promote the power and wealth of the mother country.

What was one of Pennsylvania colony's only restrictions on religious liberty?

Holding office required an oath affirming a belief in Jesus Christ, which eliminated Jews and Atheists from serving in government.

Why was the death rate in early Jamestown so high?

It lay beside a malarial swamp.

John Locke's political philosophy stressed:

A contract system between the people and the government.

Which of the following was NOT a factor that eventually made African slaves more appealing than indentured servants and Indian slaves to English planters in the New World?

A long English tradition of discriminating against dark-skinned peoples made the legalization of slavery feel more natural

"Salutary neglect" meant:

British governments left the colonies largely alone to govern themselves.

Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:

It was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders.

All of the following were factors enticing people from England and Europe to migrate to the British colonies EXCEPT:

Cheap and safe transatlantic transportation.

Roger Williams eventually left the Puritan's Massachusetts Bay Colony to found Rhode Island after arguing that:

Church and state should be totally separated.

What did Junipero Serra hope to do in California?

Convert Indians to Christianity and to settled farming.

The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following EXCEPT:

Defeating the English Fleet in 1588.

Adam Smith recorded in 1776 that the "two greatest and most important" events in the history of mankind were the:

Discovery of America and the Portuguese sea route around Africa to Asia.

As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the 16th and 17th centuries:

Efforts were made to persuade or even force those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.

The most famous Great Awakening revivalist minister was:

George Whitefield.

Which statement about the Indians of North America is FALSE?

Indians lacked genuine religion.

What did English settlers in North America believe was the basis of liberty?

Land.

Which of the following was true of poverty in the colonial period?

Limited supplies of land, especially for inheritance, contributed to poverty.

Which of the following was a consequence of the Seven Years War?

Strengthened pride among American colonists about being part of the British empire.